FAM, have you heard of the #EconomicBlackout today? Are you participating?

Noncompliance is also an option.

Lorde's words for this moment: www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

Y'all gave them the keys, the codes, the passwords. Sigh.

wapo.st/3CCgjzD Disgusted

“The liberal establishment has not raised the alarms. Worse, they have often served as the right’s complicit partner, oblivious to the precedents that Trump is now inheriting: broader police power, unaccountable presidential power, generalized repression, and gross restrictions on speech.”

Finally, a journalist willing to call a spade a spade. More of this!

Today is Rosa Parks Day! We can learn so much from this courageous warrior for Black women's bodily autonomy and racial equality.

Doechii!!!

“This guide contains 28 selections from Black Film Archive. You will find visions of resistance, childlike wonder, and unending imagination. We will survive the fire this time and the next, and the time after that” Courtesy of @mayascade.bsky.social

On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...

In this current time I would love to further investment in HBCUs. They do an outsize job of educating Black people including Black health professionals - for example, 4 HBCU med schools graduate 10% of Black docs. Would love to see Black celebs, etc increasing donations to these institutions.

This

Chile, let me outta here.

Farewell TikTok, I barely knew you.

Yes

“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.” chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...

What is Apple Intelligence and do I want it or can I ignore it?🤨

For anyone to whom it may be useful: Black Mamas Matter Alliance focuses on every aspect of maternal well-being, and accepts donations (+ a few printed goods for purchase). Although no such organisations should be necessary in this country.

This might be the creepiest pic I've seen in some time. Hums in Kendrick, "He a FAN, he a FAN, he a FAN..."

Brittany Howard and Doechii in conversation was something I didn’t know I needed. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Keep imagining better worlds.

Some youths were doing this in front of us at the film and I just ... WTF. Put your phone down. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/m...

I was just saying this yesterday.

Has anyone else gotten a bunch of followers with "go fund me's"? Feels suspicious.

Today’s #readingrecommendation is #LightinGaza edited by Jehad Abusalim et al. It brings together a magnificent polyphony of Gazan voices & is an essential read and reference. PS I am teaching it today but I did warn this was a personal list #readpalestineweek

"Targeted & Assassinated": Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o... Great discussion. Saw it on my bday and am just in awe of Cynthia Erivo. The woman did her own stunts and broke into song afterwards!

This #GivingTuesday and bday season, I'm supporting Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Please join me if you are able: www.bpf.org

For those of us who think about the institutional life of women's/gender/sexuality studies, this is interesting (and, I think, sad) news: news.ucsc.edu/2024/11/femi...

Thought to ponder this holiday season: "If we must die / on the front line / don’t let loneliness kill us." --Essex Hemphill

On the wrong side ... again

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

So this is what the Good Place feels like ...

Sofia home now